On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 17:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> Anyway, that was _way_ more than you wanted to know. I only mention
> these things because you've been around for a while, and if you're
> looking at Debian, you should know the pluses and minuses. For a
> completely new user, much of this won't affect them-- they won't be
> tinkering and continually updating.
>
> Paul
Paul,
Thanks for the write up. I actually did want to know all that. I
really actually want to know all I can about the different distros.
Kind of the Progressive Auto Insurance approach (they "supposedly" tell
you if the competitor has better rates). If I know that another linux
distro has stronger points in certain areas, then I can recommend it to
someone for those reasons. Or just the plain and simple fact of the
matter that if I know how Debian's apt-get works, I can help someone
else learn or debug. It'd be nice if there was more of the civil linux
cross polination taking place ya know?? ;^) I set out to install
Debian testing a few months back in my VMware at work. The machine I
use there has Dual HT 3.06 Xeons and a 15k ultra320 scsi disk and can
handle running lots of stuff on my desktop. Windows 2000 as a client OS
works great in VMware on my SuSE 9.2 box but I thought I'd dig in and
learn more of the Deb side. Install from ftp went good set up the
network and such, it asked to restart and locked up VMware, SuSE and
every last inch of those Dual Xeons. I tried ditching the VM files and
re-doing from scratch. Same outcome. I haven't done any reading into
the VMware - Debian type install yet but I hope to get it up and running
eventually.
Mike Branda Jr.
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